How to disable irritating Office File Validation security alert? (3 Solutions!!)

How to disable irritating Office File Validation security alert?


The Question: I have Microsoft Office 2007 running on Windows 7. Yesterday I updated Office
to the latest service pack, i.e. SP3.
This morning, when opening an MS Word document (.doc format, and a document I
created myself some months ago) I was greeted with a new dialog box saying:
Security Alert - Office File Validation
WARNING: Office File Validation detected a problem while trying to
open this file. Opening this is probably dangerous, and may allow a
malicious user to take over your computer. Contact the sender and ask
them to re-save and re-send the file. For more security, verify in
person or via the phone that they sent the file.
Including two links to some microsoft blabla webpage. Obviously the document is
safe as I created it myself some months ago.
How to disable this irritating dialog box?
(On a sidenote, a rethorical question: Will Microsoft never learn? I consider
myself a power user in Word, but I have no clue what could be wrong with my
document so that it is considered dangerous. Let alone more basic users of
Word. Sigh....)

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== This solution helped 10 people ==
Looks like they increased security toward their old file formats in order to
avoid vulnerabilities.
Here is some http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/li...
hh547465%28office.12%29.aspx on why it does this and how to convert the files
so you won't get the error message.
Two updated error messages for the Office File Validation feature in
Office 2007 SP3 now provide more detailed information and options.
You will encounter these messages if you attempt to open files that
are stored in Office binary file formats and if the files do not pass
scanning and validation checks. Note: Office binary file formats are
also known as Microsoft Office 97-2003 file formats.
...you can click the safer options link and then use one of the
following options:
1. View the file in Office 2010 by using Protected View
2. Use the Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment
(MOICE) feature
3. Open the file inside a virtual machine
Found some possible workarounds at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/li...
gg985445%28office.12%29.aspx which might be helpful. About half way down the
page are some options to control how it works.
To prevent Office File Validation from validating files you must
create the following registry keys & values, and assign a DWORD value
of "0" for the specified application in Office 2003 or Office 2007:
Keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftOffice＜version ie 11.0 or 12.0＞＜app
eg Word or Excel＞SecurityFileValidation
Values:
(all) EnableOnLoad DWORD 0
(Excel) PivotOptions DWORD 0
As an example, to disable file validation for Word 2007 you need to:
add value
EnableOnLoad DWORD 0
to key
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftOffice12.0WordSecurityFileValidation

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